Here’s a short clip of Amelia on the big girl swings at one of our local parks. While we were waiting for my brother to come to see us, she asked if she could go on the big swings. And then, as you’ll hear in the video, she kindly requests that I sit on the swing next to her and swing alongside (but not with) her. How is she so grown up?
Today was the first day in about a week when Amelia wasn’t in pain from her teeth. As I mentioned in the previous post, she had a tough time last week so it was awesome to see her back to being her regular, happy self. After numerous days of Amelia feeling unwell, it made me so pleased to see her laughing and giggling and talking to herself and enjoying playing on her own again!
She’s been chatting up a storm, including the following sentence while we were waiting for my dad to arrive for a visit this afternoon: “Babu, work, home, Mimi, house.” It was obvious (to me, at least) that she was telling herself that Babu was coming to visit Mimi at her house when he finished work. At 18 months, how can she know and understand these things? Amazing.
Also, she started saying “whoops-a-daisy” today. We can’t figure out how she learned this phrase, since neither Ian nor I have ever said it to her. But she very clearly says it and then giggles because she knows it is funny. I’ll try to get it on video.